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SAFETY SADDLE STIRRUP.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 358,603, dated March 1,1887. Application filed July 29, 1886. Serial No. 209,406. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J OHN H. GIBsoN, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Canton, county of Stark, State of Ohio, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Safety SaddleStirrups, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in saddle-stirrups; and it consistsin providing a safety-stirrup composed of two branches having a pivotalconnection with the saddle-strap loop, and means for supporting thebranches in normal position, as hereinafter set forth.

My invention also relates to the detail and combination of parts, as setforth in the claims.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all of thefigures of the drawings.

Figure l is an isometrical view of my improved safcty stirrup assuspended from a saddle-strap. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation showing thetwo branches of the stirrup clasped together at the lower corner. Fig. 3is an isometrical view showing the branches thrown apart as in the actof releasing the foot of a dismounted rider. Fig. 4. is an isometricalview of the stirrup-head showing the loop for saddle-strap and the jawsbetween which the 11 W0 branches have a pivotal connection. Fig.5 is anisoinetrical view of the one side branch having a foot-rest, and onesection of the clasp by which the branches are held in normal position.Fig. 6 is an isometrical view of the other side branch showing thefoot-rest support and clasp.

Letters A and B represent the side branches,

,which may be made of any suitable metal,

branch B consisting of vertical section a and a horizontal foot-restsection, b, integral therewith, said section a having at its upper end aperforation, 0, provided for a pivotal connec tion with the jaws d ofthe stirrup-head D. The free end of the foot-rest section b is providedwith a plane section, f, that is oblique to a line drawn parallel withthe foot-rest b, and at right angles with a radial line, 6, drawn fromthe center of the pivotal connection with the head D through the planef, and a plane vertical section, 9. There is also provided on the faceof the plane f a wedge-shaped dowel, h, hereinafter explained. Branch Ais provided at its upper end with a perforation, 25, similar toperforation 0, described in branch B, and for the same purpose. The freeend is provided with a projected supporting-shout der, j, the plane ofwhich is at a right angle with a radial line, is, drawn through saidshoulder, and the center of the pivotal connection with thesupporting-head D. (See Fig. 3.) Said shoulder j is bifurcated, and thetwo prongs Z and m adapted to the wedge h on planef of foot-rest b, Fig.5.

D, Fig. 4., is the stirruphead, having aloop, m, through which thesaddle-strap is rove, and the wings d d, between which the branches Aand B have a pivotal connection on the rivet n. The branches are sopivoted to the head and adjusted as to spring together at theclaspingcorner, as shown by the dotted line, Fig. 3, the wedge hpreventing lateralmotion. The usual downward pressure on the foot-restwill not disengage the parts; but the least pressure on the sides orbranches above the the vertical part 9 of the foot-rest will disengagethe clasping parts and allow the branches to part and release the footof a dismounted rider.

Having thus fully described the nature and object of my invention, whatI claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As a new article of manufacture, a saddle-stirrup having branches Aand B, pivotally connected to a head, D, said branch B having afoot-rest, b, oblique plane f, vertical plane g, and dowel h, and saidbranch A having a projected shoulder, j, as described, adapted to theplanes f and g and dowel h of the foot-rest, substantially as describedand for the purpose set forth.

2. In a safety saddle-stirrup having two branches, A and B, having apivotal connection with a supporting-head, D, the clasping or lookingplanef, and shoulder j on a line at right angles to a radial line drawnfrom said pivotal connection through said planes, substantially asdescribed, and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 10th day of July,A. D. 1886.

JOHN H. GIBSON.

WVitnesses:

W. K. MILLER, CHAS. R. MILLER.

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